Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
It’s possible that no other industry can benefit as greatly from digital documentation as the legal field. As anyone in the field will already know, even the simplest matters generate substantial paperwork. Associates, interns, paralegals, and secretaries spend much of their time managing documents; every piece of paper added to a case file must be [...]
The pressure for pharmaceutical companies to maintain well organized documentation is extremely high. In addition to the FDA and EMA’s strict regulations, documentation plays a critical role in several stages of pharmaceutical manufacturing. The heavy importance of good documentation in the industry means that digital documentation can provide three powerful benefits to pharmaceutical companies: Streamlined [...]
This year has been off to a busy start! In the last 30 days: we launched WebPDF.js, the new .js version of our SDK for Web browsers, launched a minor version of Foxit PDF SDK, released the Cordova version of our Mobile PDF SDK, talked about how our customers in the financial sector use PDFs [...]
Some banks are shredding 98% of their paper documents, and it’s because of the ever increasing pressure to digitize documentation in the financial services industry. One could argue that the pressure is coming from government regulations, consumer protection standards and other strict requirements, but that’s only one, relatively small, reason. In truth, the industry is [...]
Introducing our update to Foxit PDF SDK, our industry leading PDF SDK designed for application developers looking to leverage powerful, standard-compliant PDF technology. Version 5.2 of Foxit PDF SDK will contain the following new features: Redact Sensitive Information Search Annotations Delete Custom Metadata Set z-order of Annotations Delete Page Objects (Java API) Try Foxit PDF [...]
PDF is widely accepted as the go-to-format for sharing documents due to the fact that the documents will appear the same on all devices, but many have started to question the security of this file format. With data breaches and information leaks becoming more and more common, many business owners are beginning to wonder if [...]
If you’re a developer looking to implement PDF functionality in your app, you’ve presented with 3 choices: develop your own PDF technology, choose a free open source library or tool, or use a professional PDF SDK. Only one choice can be easily ruled out: developing your own pdf tech (it’s way too time-consuming for most [...]
Over the past few months, the product group at Foxit has been busily working on the follow up release to the successful version 1.0 launch of Foxit MobilePDF SDK, our mobile PDF SDK for iOS and Android. And as you are about to see, they have outdone themselves this time. Foxit MobilePDF SDK 2.0 adds [...]
Since this post was published, we have released Foxit PDF SDK, the only true multi-platform SDK in the market, available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, UWP and Web. It features a single, consistent core API, as well as a built-in viewer and UI for faster development. Apache Cordova (also known as Adobe PhoneGap) is [...]
For our final product release of the year we are excited to announce another update to our high performance PDF rendering SDK for web browsers: Foxit WebPDF Viewer. Foxit WebPDF Viewer is our cross-platform developer solution for quickly displaying, annotating, filling, signing and manipulating PDF documents in a web browser on desktop and mobile devices. [...]